Foot Fire Drill

This drill is very helpful for increasing the quickness of your feet and change of direction speed. Don’t do this drill for more than 1 minute. Work very hard for 1 minute, but it would be difficult to maintain the intensity for much longer.

How To Take a Charge With Shane Battier

Three things you need to draw a charge successfully:

1. Court vision! You have to know where the basketball is on the court at all times.
2. Great anticipation! In a split second you have to know when a player is driving to the basket and you have to see in a nano second if he is out of control. Move your feet quickly to position yourself for a charge.
3. Courage! It hurts as much as it looks on TV.

Plyometrics for Agility, Feet Quickness, Vertical Elevation

Here’s a series of short routines to improve agility, feet quickness and vertical elevation. This practice is not basketball-specific, but should be used as a fundamental routine once or twice a week, especially in the off-season.

If you need to improve your rebounding explosiveness, or if you’d like to become a lot better press defender, this routine will help you. Also, it will help you beat your opponent in the open court, whether you are a ball handler or playing defense against one.

Where to Look on Defense

We all know that Michael Jordan was the best offensive player in history of basketball. We can add to that and say that he was the most spectacular, high-flying professional athlete in all sports.

Most people don’t know (well, I don’t want to offend real basketball junkies) that MJ was one of the best defenders of all time. Here, he explains where to look on defense. It’s so easy to turn wrong way and loose track of the player you are defending, or loose track of where the ball is. Listen to the expert.